Word: scepticism
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Dates: during 1885-1885
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...thought, and at times so generous, that we must see a certain amount of good in him after all. Boswell is a queer compound of openness, foolishness, and immorality. His whole life may be summed up in the single phrase he used when telling why he was a sceptic: "My scepticism," he wrote, "was not owing to thinking wrong but to not thinking...